THE MONSTER STUDY

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Wendell Johnson conducted the Monster Study at the University of Iowa in 1939. He used 22 young orphans. One of his students, Mary Tudor, was chosen by him in order to conduct the experiment and Wendell would only supervise her research. The purpose of this study was to find the cause of "sluttering".

The orphans were divided in 2 groups. For the first group, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children and congratulated the fluency of their speech. For the experimental group, she gave negative speech therapy and criticized the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. This was unethical because some of the kids from this group suffered negative psychological effects and others had speech problems throughout their life. People were horrified that this test was preformed on young orphans. Later on, The University of Iowa appologized.

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